Extensive areal sweeps over Southern
Luzon Thursday and Friday caused heavy damage to the important railway yards at
Los Banes, south of Manila, where rolling stock and key bridges were blasted,
Gen Douglas MacArthur announced today.

Three rail bridges in the same
area were destroyed or damaged in the attacks, which hit the principal railroad
lines feeding Southern Luzon from Manila.

Carolines Island

Invaded; Japan

Aircraft City
Hit

By
MOKKIK LANDSBERG

U.S. PACIFIC FLEET HEADQUARTERS,

P E A R L HARBOR.

Jan. B.~(AP)—

A two-day
bag of 331 Japanese planes and 83 ships in carrier plane assaults on Formosa and
Okinawa, three naval bombardments extending to within 615 miles

of Tokyo and a new island
invasion on the Western Carolines were reported

today by the Navy.

The warships shelled Iwo Jima in the
Volcano Islands, Chichi and Hnha in the Bonins.

New Attack

Smashes on

At Stavelot

German
Losses in

Belgium
Bulge Are

Set
at Over 100,000

By
EDWARD KENNEDY

PARIS, Jan. 6. — (AP) —

American troops smashed against
the northern flank of the Germans' Belgian bulge in a new attack launched today
and scored initial pains of almost a mile and a half south of Stavelot, latest
official reports said tonight.

The American First Army's
offensive and that of the British troops on the Yanks right now are pounding along
a 25-mile front and advances were made at other points.

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December 7, 1941 had a great impact on E. T. and others that remember the attack on Pearl Harbor. Prior to the attack, many of us were reporting on Current Events that led up to the outbreak of World War II, September 6, 1939. E. T. was 15 years old and living in Ellensburg Washington. The impact was profound, we lost acquaintances and friends in the attack that President Roosevelt referred to as a “DAY OF INFAMY'.
These events which were “Current Events” in 1942 to 1946 have been preserved by
“Access NEWSPAPER ARCHIVE”; E. T. is presenting copies of these files to generate an interest in our past history that should not be forgotten.
Lives were changed as America was forced into the conflict; my older brother and many of his friends were drafted or enlisted in the Military services and E. T. served in the U. S. Maritime Service and Merchant Marine on three ships during the conflict.